Hurrah! We've had a fabulous fest, and we have to thank all of you for making it possible. Artists, writers, commenters, squee-ers, drabblers, drawblers, volunteers ... thank you all so much!

We'll be posting our masterlist, showcasing all of your work, on Monday, but in the meantime, please enjoy our closing community event - the final friending frenzy. Come in and hang out, make some new friends, and pimp it to your f-lists so that they can make some new friends, too! If there's someone who's fic you've admired, a new artist you found here and fell in love with their work, one of our prolific drabblers who particularly impressed you ... go on and friend them! The more friends the merrier, especially come the holiday season. :)

So, without further ado, here's the template:

<b> IJ/GJ/LJ name: </b> <b> Your age:</b> <b> For friending purposes, does age matter to you?:</b> <b>You're in fandom for the (art/fic/community/friendship/<strike>porn</strike>):</b> <b>Which HP character would you invite to your holiday office/school party?</b> <b>Which HP character would you want as a roommate?</b> <b>Which HP character would you sic on your enemies?</b> <b>The first HP ship you fell in love with?</b> <b>HP Guilty Pleasure ship/genre/type of fic?</b> <b> Holiday plans/New Years resolutions/Anything else you want us to know?:</b>

Fill it out, make friends, and pimp it! Have fun!

Our Drabble-a-thon was an amazing success, thanks to all of you who participated and commented and pimped! Thank you all so much!

We had an amazing total of 156 drabbles written ... that's right, one hundred and fifty-six drabbles for our forty-nine prompts. Without further ado, we want to acknowledge the fabulous efforts of our drabblers -- ( and our winners are )

Congratulations to all of our winners and participants -- we'll be posting details about prize icons and banners shortly. In the meantime, however, we are all winners, with so many drabbles to read and love! Please do check out our masterlist: read any of the drabbles that you may have missed in the flurry of posting, leave comments and love for all of our participants, and enjoy!

( Drabbleathon Masterlist )

Thank you all again for participating and making this event a huge success! One hundred and fifty six drabbles -- you're absolutely fabulous!

And finally, just two reminders:

We have one more community event left -- our closing Friending Frenzy. Watch for details on that coming soon, and take the opportunity to make new friends with all of the people you've met here during the course of our fest, if you haven't already.

We also want to remind you all that your fics are due on or before Halloween, October 31st, so please send them to festmods@yahoo.com as soon as you have completed them. Other than that -- sit back and enjoy the rest of the fest!

Okay, that's it, the last prompt for the Drabble-a-thon has been posted. We've been pleased and amazed by your wonderful and creative responses to them, so far. Thank you all for making this event a success!

We also want to thank two volunteers who made a huge difference, helping us post the prompts and making the drabble-a-thon run smoothly: snapesgirl and ivylady, thank you both so much!

It's not over yet, though. You can still continue to write drabbles for all the prompts throughout next week, but make sure you post them before this coming Friday at midnight EDT to be included in the competition. We'll compile a masterlist and announce the winners shortly thereafter.

Thanks again, and we hope you keep watching and commenting on the wonderful fics and art that have yet to be posted!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the first prompt to kick off the Drabble-a-thon! If you have no idea what I'm taking about, check out this earlier post for details and the rules.

In the spirit of this community, the first prompt is:

Rebirth


Don't forget to put a header on your drabbles and post or link to them in the comments.

Happy Drabbling everyone and see you in an hour! :)

The Phoenix Flies Drabble-a-thon will take place this weekend, Saturday the 29th through Sunday the 30th! We're really looking forward to it and hope that with your help and wonderful contributions it will be a smashing success!

( Here are the rules )

It's going to be a lot of fun! Pimp this to your flists, clear your schedule for this weekend, and sharpen your pencils!

Hi guys!

We're sorry for the delay, but we wanted to thank everyone who participated in our read-n-love-athon last weekend! We've tallied the comments and our top three commenters were:

1. iamisaac with 48.
2. quite_grey with 30.
3. angela_snape with 26.

Well done! We will have your prizes for you soon!

We also wanted to take this opportunity to give everyone a heads up on our next event, the drabble-thon!

We'll be hosting this next weekend (Sept 28-30), so clear off your weekend schedule because phoenix_flies will be the place to be. For more details watch this space soon!

Thanks!

Hi guys! As we stated in the Read-and-Love-athon sign up post, as a companion to this event, we're encouraging everyone to rec their old favorites or newly discovered fics and art on IJ and GJ here. This is completely optional even if you've signed up to participate in the Read-and-Love-athon, so don't feel pressured! But if you'd like to share your recs, here's the place to do it!

You can participate by either leaving fic and art recs in the comments below, or posting a rec list on your own IJ or GJ and leaving a link to it here in the comments. At the beginning of October, we'll compile all recs into a masterlist to share. But feel free to peruse the comments to find new links before that as well! If you leave recs in the comments below, please don't forget to include the link, title, author/artist, pairing/characters, rating and any warnings. To make this easy, you can use the form below, if you like!

<b>Title:</b> <b>Link:</b> <b>Author/Artist:</b> <b>Characters/Pairings:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Warnings (if any):</b> <b>Why:</b> (optional)

Please feel free to rec up until the end of September!

As a reminder, please only rec fics and art posted on IJ or GJ.

And don't forget to sign up for the Read-and-Love-athon here!

This weekend, we'll be holding our second event:

The Read-n-Love-athon

In a nutshell: track down your favourite fics on IJ and GJ, and maybe discover some new gems as well, and then show the authors some love -- comment, comment and comment some more.

( Full details under the cut )

Welcome to The Phoenix Flies Kick-off Friending Frenzy!


At over 70 members, more than 180 watchers, 60 prompts and more than 40 claims, we're off to a fantastic start! (Rumor has it that there are fics that are already done and ready to be posted... submission guidelines will be posted soon.) So while we all wait for next Monday's posting to begin, we're going to start things off with a little friending frenzy. Now's the time to catch back up with all your old friends from The-Site-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named as well as making some new ones as well.

( C'mon everybody, you know the words! )
Now, let the word go forth that the friending frenzy has begun! (That means "pimp.") This frenzy is being hosted by phoenix_flies but anyone may participate. You don't have to be a member or watcher to have fun and make friends here (although, of course, we hope you'll want to watch and play along!) Posting begins on August 27th and the next community event is scheduled for September 8-9. (Specific details to follow soon!)

So what are you waiting for? Get to friending!